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“Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.”

Heart Reason Youth Illusion Generous Spoil Wrinkles

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.”

Reason Body Faces Young Youth Standards Universal Firm Attractive Wrinkles Sexually Physical Beauty

Author:Hugh Hefner

“When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen”

Stills Age Earth Heaven Beauty Tree Fronts Youth Stones Green Prime Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.”

Giving Age Faces Youth Aging Wrinkles Brows Lodges Limping

Author:Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Mind Doe Age Faces Time Youth Aging Wrinkles Youth And Old Age

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

“In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.”

Heart Long Young Youth Messages Cheer Chamber Wrinkles Age And Youth Staying Young

Author:Samuel Ullman

“Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.”

World Made Lasts Beautiful Mother Turns Grows Loses Too Much Grace Sadness Figures Youth Ordinary Ears Decades Flawed Gave Up Wrinkles Collars Pears

Book:The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

Source: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel

“Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.”

Children Eye Chance Doubt Youth Lessons No Doubt Bells Monstrous Wrinkles Goodwill

Author:e. e. cummings